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wone.

To live, reside, stay.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/wəʊn/UK/woʊn/US
  1. To live, reside, stay.

    archaic · dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English wonen (“to abide, dwell”), from Old English wunian (“to dwell, be accustomed to”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunēn, from Proto-Germanic *wunāną (“to be wont; dwell”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive; wish; love”).

noun
  1. A house, home, habitation, dwelling.

    obsolete · poetic
  2. Wealth, riches.

    obsolete · poetic
Where this word comes from

From Middle English wone, variant of wane, from Old Norse ván (“hope, expectation”). The senses relating to dwelling-places apparently derive from the sense relating to expectation, i.e. the home as the place one is expected to be; cf. von (“place where one expects to find fish”).

num
  1. Eye dialect spelling of one.

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